US 12,334,575 B2
Methods and systems for protecting components of deep water pressure vessels
Robert Alan Eustace, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to Aqua Satellite, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed by Aqua Satellite, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/208,535.
Application 18/208,535 is a division of application No. 17/344,416, filed on Jun. 10, 2021, granted, now 11,715,857.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/054,063, filed on Jul. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0327258 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H01M 50/24 (2021.01); B63C 11/52 (2006.01); H01M 50/186 (2021.01); H01M 50/242 (2021.01)
CPC H01M 50/24 (2021.01) [H01M 50/186 (2021.01); H01M 50/242 (2021.01); B63C 11/52 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A battery enclosure for providing a predetermined pressure distribution, the enclosure comprising:
a first battery having a first end, a middle portion, and a second end;
a connector element configured to electrically couple the first battery to circuitry; and
a pressure distribution structure surrounding at least a portion of the first battery, wherein the pressure distribution structure comprises a first cavity having a first volume larger than a volume of the first battery so as to create a first gap that is adjacent to and surrounds the circumference of the first battery,
wherein a gap width of the first gap varies along a length of the first battery, wherein the gap width is greater at the middle portion of the first battery than at the first and second ends,
wherein the first battery includes a positive terminal at the first end and a negative terminal at the second end.